Dec. 25, 2024
We Are The Hansons Our Christmas Tradition
Join us for the heartwarming holiday episode of We Are The Hansons! Were pulling back the curtain on our favorite Christmas traditions-from the joy of decorating the tree with our kids to the unique ways we make the season meaningful as a family. Weather its the chaos of last minute gift wrapping, the magic of Christmas morning, or creating new memories together, this episode is all about love, laughter, and the holiday spirt. Tune in and celebrate the season with The Hansons!
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Welcome to We are the Hansens. It's Christmas time. In
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this episode, we're sharing our favorite family traditions that make
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this season magical, from the little moments of chaos to
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the big celebrations. Will take you behind the scenes of
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how the Hansens do Christmas, whether it's the special recipes,
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late gift wrapping, or those moments we treasure most. We
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hope our story inspires you to reflect on your own
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holiday traditions. Grab some cocoa, get cozy, and join ours
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as we dive into the magic of Christmas with the
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hands ends. Hey, everyone, today is Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone,
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So I wanted to come on today and talk about
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our family tradition in our home. Some of the things
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that are pretty special and why they're special to us
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is one we celebrate with all of our kids. We
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get everyone together, they join us at our home. We
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enjoy the company of our children. Our children enjoy.
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The company of each other and it is just wonderful
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and that is special to us. Where we can all
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get together, enjoy movies, games, just fun things and especially
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dinner together. You know, holiday seasons are not always the
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funnest one. Everybody struggles around the holiday. It is a
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very big expense that goes out, whether it be getting
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gifts for everyone, whether it be the dinners, whether it
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be all of that together, you know, traveling places to
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see family. It is a struggle, and I know it
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hasn't been easy on us. We got a lot of kids.
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I mean, we celebrate. We try to make the best
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of everything. We like to watch a lot of movies
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around the holiday. You know, two weeks before Christmas we
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really start getting into watching Christmas movies. I sit down
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with my kids, we eat popcorn, we get to go
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through the movies. This year, we did a lot of
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the home alone movies. I think that's one of my
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kids's favorites. So we did a lot of home alone movies.
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We did a lot of Polar Express. We watched the
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new Red One movie. That was pretty awesome. My kids
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really liked it. So I was kind of glad to
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be able to spend some time with them watching Christmas
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movies and you know, just hearing the stories and them
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talk about the movies that we've watched. It's great, especially
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from the little ones, because they can really tell the stories.
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I want to talk about the importance of faith family
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and creating memories. You know, you get with your family,
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You need to make sure that you make memories. Them.
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Memories will last a lifetime. Them memories will go on
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from your you to your children to their children and
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just keep going down the line, and their kids are
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going to be like, oh, yeah, Grandma used to do
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that or you know anything like that, and that story
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is going to live on forever. Or oh, I remember
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making popcorn balls or whatever you may do around the holiday.
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Your kids are going to remember that, and then it's
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just going to be a family tradition to the next
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down the line. So it is really important to make
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those memories with your family. Next, I wanted to talk
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about just what we do in our home for the holidays. Obviously,
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we watch movies, Christmas movies up until Christmas, and even
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to be honest, we tend to take it a little
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further we go to the New Year. The reason we
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do that is because it still feels special in our
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home up until the New Year. I mean, it always
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feels special, but this time of year, our kids are here.
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We get to spend time with them. We get to
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enjoy dinners with them, not just the little dinner we
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have during the week or whatever. It's the dinner that
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is amazing. There's always a lot of food and desserts
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and just lots of laughs and stuff being made in
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our home. On Christmas Day, we sit down, we watch movies,
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we play games, we eat a meal, we play more games,
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We enjoy the laughs of everyone. You know, it's just
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a fun day for us. Usually Christmas Eve, Morgan, my
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daughter Morgan, she'll come over and she'll stay the night
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with us and enjoy time with us, and then open
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presents Christmas Morning with us, and then she's off doing
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what she's got to do with her boyfriend and his family,
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and then usually she comes back home for dinner. The
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other kids throughout the day. Most of the time time
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on Christmas Day, I have little helpers helping me cook.
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Usually Maddie is doing a lot of the baking. I
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have Torn and Anna that want to get into from
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helping make jello to peeling eggs for deviled eggs. I mean,
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it's just a big thing for the kids, and they
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really enjoy that. And I really enjoy teaching all three
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of my younger girls that this is what we do
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in the kitchen, this is our thing and whether they
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choose to change up their dinner with something different. Our
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dinner consists of ham and mashed potatoes and gravy and
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pies and cranberry sauce and a dinner roll. You know,
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there's a variety of things. And we do green bean casseroles.
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So there's all kinds of different things that we do
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on Christmas Day, and it's same with you know, Thanksgiving,
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but it is a very special time for us. And
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then the other kids will come out to see what
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we're doing, and we put on music and we dance
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in the kitchen and we just have fun. We make
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it a day of memories and fun and laughter. Like
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I can tell you today we all had a nerf gunfight.
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That was the funnest thing ever. We were dancing in
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the kitchen and music. It was great. So, you know,
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that is an important thing to do with your children
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is make sure that that whatever you do is something
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that will create the memory that your kids will never forget.
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And I can tell you my kids can remember last
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Christmas and the Christmas before what we did and what
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type of different foods we made that they might not
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see this Christmas. But we try to make sure that
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they're there and they're helping hands on. But you know
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that is one important thing about the holidays for us
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is just sitting down, eating dinner, playing games, making memories.
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And I guess you know, I hope that my children
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will take this on to their children however they want,
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as long as they create them memories and make sure
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that their day is well spent. It's not about the gifts.
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I try to tell my kids all the time. You know,
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this holiday is for us all to be together and
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enjoying life together, spending that time being able to enjoy
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our meals. The little ones still don't get it quite yet,
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but the older ones have. Madison was you know, me
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and her had to talk about it's not always about
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the gifts, and sometimes you don't always get as many gifts,
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but there is always struggles around the holidays, especially for
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our family. We have a big family, so when it
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comes time for the holidays, I almost have to start
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in March or April buying gifts in order to be
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done before Christmas, because it's always a last minute shopping
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thing for us, and it is very tiring. Me and
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Maddie were running around with our heads cut off the
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day before Christmas trying to find the last couple things
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we needed, but we got it done and we got
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to enjoy the morning. So I just wanted to come
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on here and wish everybody a merry Christmas. And I
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wanted to close with you know, cherish your family and
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create joy, no matter the circumstance. If I could not,
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I could not say that enough. I mean, that is
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something I want you to remember. Cherish family and create joy,
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no matter the circumstance. I'm going to get off here
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for the day and I'm going to end it there.
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I want you guys all to have a fabulous Christmas
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and a happy New Year. And if you have any
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questions or you want to know anything about us, you
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can send me an email at we are the Hanson
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Show at gmail dot com, or get on over to
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Facebook and we are on we are the Hanson's Facebook page.
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You can send me a message there and I will
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get back to you, or I will try and put
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on whatever you want to hear on the podcast. You guys,
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have a blessed day.
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Thank you.
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